The unsaturated soil hydraulic properties (the soil water characteristic and relative permeability curves) are key hydrodynamic parameters in the fields of soil science and civil engineering. Because of the strong dependency of these properties on water content, their determination is subject to considerable experimental and numerical problems. Difficulties increase when the soil approaches ove...

The determination of serum tumor markers plays an important role in clinical diagnoses for the patients with certain tumor-associated disease. Although many commercial kits have been applied in clinical immunoassays, conventional methods always have some disadvantages, resulting in the need of other new, efficient, and easily automated methods. Immunosensors, considered as a major development i...

An improved high-performance liquid-chromatographic (HPLC) assay for the simultaneous determination of serotonin (5-HT) and 5-hydroxyindole-3-acetic acid (5-HIAA) in human urine is reported. Following the automated precolumn derivatization of urinary 5-HT and 5-HIAA with benzylamine, the derivatives are separated by isocratic elution on a reversed-phase C18 semi-microbore column, and are fluoro...

This article reports on children's experiences of hospitalization. Data were collected via semi-structured interviews with 11 children aged between seven and 14 years from four paediatric units in England. The children identified a range of fears and concerns, which included: separation from parents and family; unfamiliar environment; investigations and treatments; and loss of self-determinatio...

We present the first detailed spectroscopic and photometric analysis of an eclipsing binary in the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). This is a 19.3-mag semi-detached system with components of late-O and early-B spectral types. From the light and radial velocity curves we have carried out an accurate determination of the masses and radii of the components. Their effective temperatures have been estimated ...

We propose a set of novel methodologies which enable valid statistical hypothesis testing when we have only positive and unlabelled (PU) examples. This type of problem, a special case of semi-supervised data, is common in text mining, bioinformatics, and computer vision. Focusing on a generalised likelihood ratio test, we have 3 key contributions: (1) a proof that assuming all unlabelled exampl...

We study the emergence of de Sitter space in Euclidean dynamical triangulations (EDT). Working within semi-classical approximation, it is possible to relate lattice parameters entering simulations partition function quantum gravity. verify that EDT geometries behave semi-classically, and by making contact with Hawking-Moss instanton solution for function, we show how extract a value renormalize...

In this paper, we construct the new integral representation of Jost solution Sturm-Liouville equation with impuls in semi axis $[0,+\infty )$ and give type relation, examine properties Kernel function their partial derivatives $x$ $\ t$, constructed obtain differential provided by function. Finally, paper prove uniqueness determination potential scattering data.

OBJECTIVES Cefixime (Cfx), is a semi-synthetic third-generation oral cephalosporin antibiotic that is prescribed for the treatment of susceptible infections. There are some procedures for the determination of Cfx in pharmaceutical formulations and biological samples. Herein a spectrofluorimetric method was proposed for Cfx determination based on the fluorescence quenching of terbium-danofloxaci...

the polynomial interpolation in one dimensional space r is an important method to approximate the functions. the lagrange and newton methods are two well known types of interpolations. in this work, we describe the semi inherited interpolation for approximating the values of a function. in this case, the interpolation matrix has the semi inherited lu factorization.